Culture & Literature

In Ethiopia, the latest victims of the year-long war in Tigray are the country’s rich artefacts. Centuries-old manuscripts and scrolls...

By David B. Moore* Danish director Camilla Nielsson’s documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the...

Towards the end of the Kwame Nkrumah era in 1966, a number of highlife artists wrote songs critical of him...

Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is well known for his promotion of the use of mother tongue languages, but he...

In June, Mwazulu Diyabanza stood in a Paris museum next to a 19th century funerary post from central Africa, and...

Mastering tones represents an integral aspect of Yoruba language acquisition as it constitutes the basis for an in-depth appreciation of...

Having described the status of the Nigerian quasi-official languages in my previous article entitled, “Profiling the Nigerian Indigenous Languages”, it...

Nigeria, the most populous country in the African continent, is situated in the West African region. It comprises 180 million...

In its article entitled, ‘Mass failure in WASSCE’ published on March 12, 2019, Daily Trust reports a general failure of...

Since the inauguration of the new Lagos Yoruba language policy officially proclaimed by the immediate former state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode,...